Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

We have much earlier evidence, from skeletons and skulls, of modern humans in ... like those of Homo floresiensis, but there are no skeletal remains of Ebu Gogo for comparison, nor any ...

First unearthed in a startling discovery nearly 21 years ago, Homo floresiensis ... as seen within modern human populations, the authors noted. Overall, the research suggested that the hobbit ...

floresiensis, who were wiped about around 50,000 years ago around the time when modern humans (Homo sapiens) began to arrive in Asia. The team also thinks the so-called Hobbits may have have ...

The journey ends with modern humans as the only surviving human species in the ... visitors will see how physically adapted they were to cold climates. The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another ...

lifestyles and environments that have shaped modern humans. 'It's fantastic to see such extremely good reproductions of important new fossil discoveries like Ardi and Homo floresiensis, as well as the ...

Professor Gagan considers it possible that the Flores Man encountered the migrating modern human, Homo sapiens. However, more recent research suggests that Homo floresiensis probably disappeared ...